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Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism” Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?” Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power” #bbclaurak

Tory MP Bernard Jenkin sounding completely out of touch Which is exactly why his party won’t be anywhere near power for a generation (though ideally never) #politicslive

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

Journalism union condemns Reform for reporting ITV to police over racism exposé leftfootforward.org/2026/10/jour...

This is mad. Farage's right-hand-man George Cottrell is linked to a gambling company called Tether.Bet. It turns out that the company used a fake document to secure a licence. By @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @georgegreenwood.bsky.social and @coramazov.bsky.social 1/3 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Jack Ross, CEO of Turning Point UK and a former Conservative election candidate, has been suspended from the party in the wake of undercover sting by Al Jazeera reportedly showing him discussing the cost of hiring contract killers. Story from @benquinn75.bsky.social and me

This won't go anywhere, obviously, but it's still a useful indication of how they'd act if they ever get into Government. Locking up journalists would just be the start

Week in, week out, Badenoch complains that this government “isn’t serious” whilst being possible the most unserious Tory leader ever (including Truss) #PMQs #PoliticsLive

Burnham on Tory criticism of the upcoming Budget: “Does anybody believe that the Tory Party has the audacity to come to this House & lecture us about how to do a budget. British households are still paying the price of *that* disastrous budget” #PMQs #PoliticsLive

Andrew Mitchell and Claire Fox think they know more about France than the actual French press Their desperation to frighten gullible people is repulsive #politicslive

Tim Stanley (Telegraph) on the French riots: “People can go away & see, very obviously, migrants rioting” Marie Billon (RTL): “What do you call migrants? People who are not white? That doesn’t mean they’re not French. It’s not a big issue at the moment” #Newsnight

You may have seen reports about the campaign for charities to be more 'transparent' about who funds them. Well it turns out the mysterious new right-wing think tank behind it won't say who funds or runs them, and used fake names for the authors of the report which launched their campaign

What a surprise, the IEA want to shoehorn people into jobs they don’t want whilst cutting taxes left, right and centre (though largely in the benefit of the wealthy) #politicslive

Right wingers constantly insisting that the best cure for anxiety and depression is to be working in a job you hate #politicslive

Tory peer, Daniel Hannan promoting the IEA’s ‘alternative budget’ which is the same IEA that was displaying almost orgasmic delight at Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget #politicslive

Not bombshells. Entirely on brand “appalling behaviour” and “extreme racism” from an appalling, extreme and racist party, led by an appalling, extreme and racist man. The apples are all rotten because the tree is. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The fact that the Institute of Economic Affairs has Daniel Hannan as its Director proves just what truly woeful secretly-funded think tank (lobby group) it is #politicslive

Nadine Dorries: “Leadership is about taking responsibility” Rank hypocrisy from a woman now supporting Nigel Farage’s Reform Party #bbclaurak

Despite Farage’s attempts this week to distance himself from the extreme views of his councillors and members, the reality is that his entire operation is absolutely infested with them. The barbarians are not just at the gates, but sitting comfortably inside www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-nigel-...

Jenrick on #r4today trying to downplay the raging racism of Reform… by saying “Farage has done more than anyone else to stand up against racism and the far right”. Farage the schoolboy Nazi. Farage the ‘breaking point’ Brexiter. Farage the mass-deportations champion. Farage the far right racist.

Who amongst us hasn't been provoked into saying black people are animals and the King is a secret Muslim who should be decapitated?

So-called journalists nodding along as Nigel Farage talks about locking up actual journalists for doing actual journalism

Once again… This is not a vetting problem. This is a Reform problem. This is a Farage problem. Only grim losers like this are going to sign up to a racist, misogynistic, extremist, mass-deportations and tell-the-Royal-Marines-to-murder-people-at-sea kind of party. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

The hypocrisy displayed by Trump arselickers, like Greg Swenson, is sick inducing #politicslive

I see the "migrants taking all the new jobs" nonsense is back, in the Mail, Telegraph and Times. Reminder that this is BS, and IPSO ruled repeatedly that this is not what the data says. I expect corrections from all of them (Times has already agreed to correct) www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/1183...

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

No wonder Badenoch and Farage are shitting bricks at the suggestion that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. Their whole business model relies on Brexit and the racist anti- immigration bomb that it detonated. Their next bright idea - to leave the ECHR - would delight Putin too.

The utter disdain Tories, like Alex Burghart, have for those unfortunate enough to be claiming a degree of help (welfare) from the state whilst pushing for abolishing IHT (that only the wealthiest tend to pay) is vile #politicslive

Kemi Badenoch, who claims never to make gaffes whilst simultaneously dropping a bollock ever time she opens her mouth, asking Andy Burnham when he’ll stop “putting his foot in his mouth” #PMQs #PoliticsLive

So immeasurably dishonest of the 90% of British media to do nothing in setting out exactly what has been improved by leaving the EU (because they can’t) yet now employing righteous fury in questioning whether Brexit was a good idea or a totally idiotic one #PoliticsLive

Jenrick’s been on quite the journey from a one nation, Remain-voting Tory, through to frothing Brexiter and on to demanding that Royal Marines murder people at sea for daring to seek refuge here. All to impress the country’s racist losers and maybe get a few more votes. Christ he’s repulsive.

Pollsters Redfield and Wilton, which have consistently produced some of the highest figures for Reform of any firm, employed a senior aide to Farage to oversee their political polling, without disclosing his role. A second Farage aide was also used to place exclusive polling by R+W in the press

This councillor is a perfect fit for Reform A complete twat on every level #politicslive

The weapons grade arrogance shown by this Reform councillor, insisting they can simply deport people to countries that refuse to accept them Are they just going to airdrop them into countries via unauthorised entry of their airspace or what?? #politicslive

Nigel Farage calls Andy Burnham a "lair" for saying Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum in 2016. He cites Boris Johnson, a notorious compulsive liar who did his best to bury the Russia Report, as evidence that Russia did not interfere. "The Russia hoax has run all the way through this."

We’ll tell you what’s boring, Farage and the BBC… honking out Reform’s latest anti-asylum seeker bollox, as if it’s workable or wanted, and without any meaningful scrutiny. Yusuf on #r4today like a firehose of fascist idiocy, when this is the ugly truth behind their desperate outburst…

They’ve spent weeks crying about “retrospective” action against taking tens of millions in donations from weird crypto billionaires yet are now determined to apply retrospective action to those who have a legal right to remain here Weapons grade hypocrisy

Tory MP Andrew Griffith, sitting in front of a list of policies that clearly benefit the wealthiest in society, claims the Tories aren’t a party for the rich as they want to cut Inheritance Tax too (which the list states) #bbclaurak

Exactly what “standards” are those, Robert? You collude with pornographers over property deals. You take dodgy donations. You whore for racists and christofascists for personal gain. You betray your political allies, friends and your country to sniff at power. You have no standards. You’re poison.

That 'Keminaissance' in full

One of the worst things to have sustained itself after the Brexit vote is pompous right wing “journalists” still constantly invited into public discourse to provide hot takes on why the country is still shit but take zero responsibility for their influence in making it so #bbcqt

Brilliant. Peterlee is over 300 miles away from where most small boats land but let’s end on a question about small boats #bbcqt

Gob smacked that ‘law and order’ has seemingly reduced so much after the Tory Party thought the biggest culprit of the 2008 global financial crisis was having too many bobbies on the beat #bbcqt

Tory peer Lord Bethell’s support for Badenoch’s proposed IHT abolition on first homes inadvertently proving that the feeling around IHT does not represent the reality of it The vast majority of the country will not pay IHT #PoliticsLive

No doubt all the people who printed, posted or broadcast this now disproved story respect their readers/viewers/listeners/followers enough to correct the record asap… www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

“People have worked hard & want to leave something to their children” And they still can. They can leave hundreds of thousands of pounds to their kids before being tax a little on it The way the Tories frame IHT is though Labour want to take their gold fillings #politicslive

Jacob Rees-Mogg thinks Kemi Badenoch has “charisma” No, she’s arrogant and weird. That’s not charisma #newsnight

The Tories are a complete busted flush of a political party Their entire ethos now appears to be a weird desire to abandon all regulations And if you want to see what a reduction in regulations looks like… #politicslive